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Show THE CITIZEN 4 1TSb2 Of I H 5 . llllllllllllllll!llllllllllllllll'alllllllllllllllllll:llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!llll Published by THE GOODWINS PUBLISHING COMPANY 420 Ness Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 4, 1929 Volume 40 Number 1 Help Bring Them, Up FRIDAY afternoon thousands of Salt Lake boys marched through the business district, their chests out, heads up, colors flying. They were a mighty proud bunch of youngsters proud to be alive, proud to be Americans, proud of who they were, from the dirtiest urchin to the most immaculate lad in the line. It was a great demonstration, that parade. And it carried another message, too, than that of exuberant boyhood. For every boy in that line is a prospective citizen. Not so many years hence they will be marching in much more serious parade and squaring their shoulders against the real tasks that are only play to them today. And upon every boy who has grown to manhood, upon every girl who now is a woman, there rests the task of helping raise these boys to be y of good citizenship and carry the thought, too, that every time you encroach on the laws '$ of the state and nation you are encouraging others to do the same. Make the boys your equals. America is the great leveler, and many a poor lad of ambition has passed his less worthy brother of self con- - ' tent. Be pals to them. Theres a bank president seUing papers on that comer. On that bicycle is a lad who is going to be an attorney and a good one. Over there sits a lad who will rise to heights in an industrial line. Much better to have said a kind word to one of them, to' have encouraged him, to have given him a spark of courage than to have passed him by forgetting that all men once were boys and that once, not so long .ago, you yearned 1 to be close, to a man. who was reaching the mark for which he aimed. i - 4 Another religious prejudice that survives the election is hating to get up on Sunday morning. Dallas News. Call the Air Roll TPHREE CLUBS have answered present on the calling of Salt Lakes air roll. Be- ginning with the Kiwanis club and successfully sweeping through the Exchange and the Lions clubs, a resolution calling for appointment of aviation committee will be coman inter-clu- b pleted next week with expected successful consideration of the plan by the Rotary club and the Chamber of Commerce. The plan, originated by C. Clarence' Nes-lehas as its immediate concern the improvement of facilities at Airport and leading to it necessary to place the field on a par with other air terminals in the United States. Through the columns of The Citizen for the past six weeks the air crusade has been championed. Through its columns the fight for improved facilities will be waged until Salt Lakes citizens are provided with an airport which compares favorably with the ports in other sections which are called on to handle business comparable to' that handled in our home port, the biggest air mail center in the United States aside from Ghicago. The Citizen offers the columns of its paper to the newly formed aviation committee. It pledges its support to the air advancement program, and it insists that Salt Lake Citys people .awake to the necessity of securing the facilities which modem aviation must have to keep pace with the daily increasing burden of men of self respect, honest, fearless citizens of .vision and of capabilities necessary to elevate them to self support and independent thinking. Help bring them up. Its your job. What if your son is grown to manhood? Every lad is a prospective leader, a good workman, perhaps a potential business friend whose need you will feel before so long. Set them an example of. good citizenship. Precept is the greatest teacher let none of these young Americans find in your example a quality dangerous to acquire. Remember when you were a boy? Remember how you looked to certain men as examples, . hoped to attain the success that they had acquired? Those men you still remember and likely you have gone beyond their own accomplishments. For the ambitions of boyhood, impossible though they.may seem, are the dreams upon which future America is built; In a larger sense, the city and state rest upon the vision of these boys through the in' sight they have in their coming problems business. through you. and your fellow workers. Set them an example of industry. Sow seeds Also, he who hesitates loses the parking of earnest endeavor. Set them an example space. Arkansas Gazette. n, V 9 -- |